CloudySky2 Is Now Available
Why “CloudySky2”?
CloudySky2 is a modern version of the original CloudySky app that was first developed in 2010-13. This new version uses Apple’s latest API’s and SwiftUI language.
More than just a picture gallery of clouds, CloudySky is an easy to use and complete pocket field guide for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that will help you to enjoy and better understand clouds by quickly identifying their names and characteristics. Just look up in the sky and get your head in the clouds. Take your time. This is not learning as a test, but learning for your enjoyment. When you are out for a walk the clouds are there for you to enjoy, and with CloudySky in your hands you will appreciate them even more.
Look at the clouds around you and then take CloudySky out of your pocket, purse or bag and easily learn the names and characteristics of the clouds at your own pace. You will be surprised and pleased how over time your appreciation of clouds will grow and your enjoyment of them, with the knowledge you get with CloudySky, will increase.
CloudySky includes:
A beautiful cloud chart/photo collage that gives you an overview of the ten main types of clouds
A photo index of all the major cloud types grouped by the major elevation categories (étages)
A detailed view of each cloud type that gives you quick access to everything you would like to know about that cloud
A photo index of all the species, varieties, supplemental features and accessory clouds for each cloud type
A chart with all of the symbols used in weather maps for every cloud
Over 100 stunning photos to help you identify the cloud you are looking at
Useful, authoritative and detailed explanations of how clouds form, what their distinguishing features are, how they are categorized and a history of how the clouds came to be named as they are
Beautiful full size views on your iPad
Take photos from within the app
CloudySky2 is available for free at the App Store.
The Original CloudySky Video
When the original version of CloudySky was released I created the following video walk-through of the app. While the new version had a somewhat different look it is a good orientation to what the new CloudySky2 app is. Within the new CloudySky2 app the Cloud Guide tab has a “How To Use CloudySky2” section with up-to-date screen images.
A Bit Of History …
As of September 2024 the original CloudySky app is no longer available on the AppStore.
I’ve did my best to keep up with OS releases and update CloudySky with versions using the latest development kits. This was nontrivial work: Apple is constantly improving and enhancing their development kits, and don’t want to continue supporting their older versions. So developers like me, even with apps that don’t change functionally, must periodically update our apps to stay in the store.
So, with the original version it had to be removed from the App Store but I decided to start re-developing the app using Apple’s current APIs and the SwiftUI language. CloudySky2 is the result.
A heartfelt thank you who bought and enjoyed the original CloudySky and a welcome to those users, old and new, who have found the new CloudySky2.